On 2009-07-16 14:04-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote:

>> On 2009-07-15 22:46-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote:
>>
>>> [...]To summarize the choice we can have
>>> no soft landings or no cmake-gui.
>
> I have just committed (revision 10153) the hard-landing solution because
> there is no way I wanted to have both ccmake and cmake-gui provide broken
> language results such as found by Hazen and confirmed in detail by me.
>
> However, immediately after I did that commit, the CMake gurus on the CMake
> list came up with a temporary workaround for bug
> http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=9220.  The workaround should
> provide a soft landing for both the missing and broken compiler cases which
> I think will work quite well.  However, the implementation of this idea (to
> run a simple cmake configuration from within cmake to check on each compiler
> in question) is non-trivial so it will take me a while to finish with this
> issue.
>
> So more later.

I believe I have now (revision 10157) finished this saga.  The new
soft-landing method (issue a warning message, disable that component of
PLplot, and continue) when compilers are missing/broken seems to work well.
For example, it appears to work both for cmake and cmake-gui. Please try it
out.

I have also enabled the D compiler by default since its examples are fairly
complete and the bindings and examples build without issues.

Previously, we were rather reluctant to enable a new language by default,
but now that a missing/broken compiler only causes a warning, I believe the
criteria for enabling a language by default do not have to be quite so 
severe as before.

Alan
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University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).

Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation
for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software
package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of
Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project
(lbproject.sf.net).
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